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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More airplanes came to Princeton and droned above the elms. Dean Gauss said nothing. Students paid $3 apiece for five-minute rides in commercial craft, just to fly over Nassau Hall and snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cunning Gauss | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...grown enormously. ... Over there [Europe] the motor boat is now just what it was with us 10 or 15 years ago-a built-to-order boat." Mr. Dodge sells his motor boats as though they were motor cars, as does Gar Wood, another famed maker of runabout (Baby Gar) craft. Dodge boats range in price between $2,195 and $7,200; Baby Gars between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motor Boats | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Bounding Jugoslavia on three sides are Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania; and on the fourth side lies the Adriatic, with Italy just across its silvery waves. Italian states-craft has always the object of seizing the Adriatic shore of Jugoslavia along which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poem, Treaty | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Craft. The aerial sleeper is now a commonplace to government couriers between Germany and Russia. Eight leather easy chairs in the passenger cabin convert into four bunks, with curtains. There are slight, agile cabin attendants; refreshment machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skies of Germany | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Nicanor" is 67 feet long overall, and is from designs by Alden similar to his famous "Malabars", which have made such excellent showings in ocean races of the past few seasons. The craft was built in the yards of Charles Morse in Thomaston, Maine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES SAIL SCHOONER TO ENGLAND | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

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